About the Abyssea areas

[Krystal]

I can't find any nice way to put this..so i will try to make it as kindly as possible....

Ever since Abyssea has been introduced players have gotten LAZY..and i mean seriously LAZY....it seems none care about the fact they are so under skilled it's not even funny when they have a level 90. this to be frank..is stupid. players are abusing the abyssea zones and using them for easy leveling from 30 and up. i have partied so often with players in areas such as dyna a few other end game areas and have been shocked and annoyed at the fact these players could not hit the broad side of a barn! this is only one of the side effects of abyssea being introduced with such a low statue of limitation. another result from this abuse all the normal zones have been nearly empty. just a few scarce parties here and there. nothing like it used to be. as a result i have seen new players to the game leave less than a week after first joining asking questions to me such as"where are the parties?!" and "Are zones usually this empty in this game?"(as i am a mentor on the server) my suggestion is this. put a higher level limitation on all abyssea areas. such as level 70 and higher only. This will not only encourage players to level in normal areas so that they skill up properly for end game areas..but will give new players a decent fighting chance at experiencing the fun and excitement of FFXI.

[Nickdogg]

Here here!

[Rionaheart]

I'm with you guys and must be said to quote could not hit the broad side of a barn! Abyssea should be 70 or 75+ coz if you are new to abyssea at 75 with no atamas you still miss quite a lot till around lv 80 and if you have atamas then 70 is good enought i hope se does increase the level cap of the areas for abyssea i have been playing this game for yrs and still lots to do and you are right ppl are now just getting lazy and leaching.

[Corydor]

I agree with this whole heartedly, people will always use quick ways instead of hard work because people are lazy it is a known fact. As for you example of dynamis, my group introduced a whm not long ago everything was fine till someone died. All he did was raise 1 the player we asked why he said he hadn't got raise 2 or raise 3 because he leveled it in abyssea quickly and he couldn't afford the spells >.< now no offense if a level 90 don't have the key spells they they have no right to be 90

Soooooooooooooo please raise the level cap to 70+ so that things can get back to normal, not to mention the economy in most areas would recover since people would be farming more while they party

[Krystal]

I'm with you guys and must be said to quote could not hit the broad side of a barn! Abyssea should be 70 or 75+ coz if you are new to abyssea at 75 with no atamas you still miss quite a lot till around lv 80 and if you have atamas then 70 is good enought i hope se does increase the level cap of the areas for abyssea i have been playing this game for yrs and still lots to do and you are right ppl are now just getting lazy and leaching.

This has been something that has been eating at me since the release of abyssea. i am a hardcore player and strong believer in the fact levels should be earned..not given on a silver platter. SE nearly signed FFXI's death warrant when they released abyssea. new players don't know what to do and leave because they have no idea how to level or learn how to do alot of the fun things in FFXI. i down right refuse to level ANY JOB AT ALL in those zones. i frankly down right hate abyssea for the fact it's killing FFXI as it is right now. the only time i have anything to do with it is when i have to merit on one of my level 90 jobs. and the armor..forget it! i want nothing to do with it.

[Alkalinehoe]

. i am a hardcore player .

Oshit, he's hardcore.

[Krystal]

Oshit, he's hardcore.

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[Fiarlia]

not to poke at the little things but omg....read profiles! good fricking lord! i'm female ya twits!>.< men today...no brains....just egos....>.>;

.....Seriously?

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[Todo]

This has been something that has been eating at me since the release of abyssea. i am a hardcore player and strong believer in the fact levels should be earned..not given on a silver platter. SE nearly signed FFXI's death warrant when they released abyssea. new players don't know what to do and leave because they have no idea how to level or learn how to do alot of the fun things in FFXI. i down right refuse to level ANY JOB AT ALL in those zones. i frankly down right hate abyssea for the fact it's killing FFXI as it is right now. the only time i have anything to do with it is when i have to merit on one of my level 90 jobs. and the armor..forget it! i want nothing to do with it.

You're completely off base blaming Abyssea for new players not knowing what the hell they're doing.

I've been playing for two months. I've never had a previous account, I'm one of those rare actually new people. I bought Abyssea because I thought I would just get a job to 30 than leach to 50, do my LB, leach to 55, etc.

EVERYONE seems to think that people that do Abyssea parties are like "Oh hey, you don't have Cruor to buy keys? You're literally just going to join this party, sit here, contribute absolutely nothing to the party? OKAY! WE"D LOVE TO HAVE YOU!"

If you aren't key whoring, you're not going to get into an Abyssea party as a sub 75 job. At least not on my server. (Odin.)

If you wanted to argue that new players get the shaft because everyone is in Abyssea, and new players are basically stuck to Qufim parties, there would be some merit in that. I set up all my own parties, and it can be difficult to find parties for post 30 places, however, you would actually be surprised.

There is a nostalgic feeling for places like Crawlers Nest and Gargliage (Pardon my horrendous spelling ><) And people seem excited to go to those places. It's a nice change of pace from just leeching your job to 90.

In conclusion:

Everyone needs to calm the f down about how new players are just leeching jobs to 90 because of Abyssea. I would say MAYBE 1% of the new player population is actually doing that. If that much. New players (try to) make parties and level the exact same way you did when you first did it, at least with their first job.

And, unless this game is vastly different from EVERY OTHER MMO, after someone has gotten one job to 90 the "real" way, they probably have a good grasp of this game. Yes, a WHM and THF have VASTLY different mechanics, but you're not completely new to the game like you were when you first started. It's easier to pick up what you have to do and what not to do, when to do what, etc. The 1-30 level grind teaches a lot, regardless of how you want to spin it.

[kaht]

I dunno about you, but I've seen a lot more people leveling up outside of Abyssea since the xp was doubled and FoV once a day restriction was removed.

I got BRD from 1-42 this weekend, outside Abyssea, just playing semi-casually. Guess what? All my skills are gimped cause I leveled way faster than my skills would go up. How is that any different than Abyssea?

What if I level sync 18-90 in qufim? My skills won't be capped any more than they would be if I key'd the job to 90. How is that any different than Abyssea?

If they put a 75 cap on Abyssea now, how is that any fair to people that never got to take advantage of leveling their characters up there 30-75?